Black
Black adjective - Of or belonging to a racial group having dark skin especially of sub-Saharan African origin.
Usage example: "a great people--a black people--...injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization"- Martin Luther King Jr.
Light-skinned is an antonym for black.
Light-skinned
Light-skinned adjective - Having little skin pigmentation.
Both words in one sentence
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Often comes up on talk shows, where a black or part-black man will insist a light-skinned child can't be his.
Source: Chocolate Baby -
Spike Lee's Get On The Bus features a culture clash between a very light-skinned and Anglo-looking black man (played by Spike Lee Joint regular Roger Guenveur Smith) and the darker black men on the bus.
Source: But Not Too Black - In the Hairspray movie, it is kind of hard to listen to the light-skinned Queen Latifah sing the line "...with a darkness/as black as my skin" without thinking of this trope.
Source: But Not Too Black
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Light-skinned and Black. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 28, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/black/light-skinned
Black & Light-skinned. N.p., 2016. Web. 28 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/black/light-skinned>.
Light-skinned or Black. 2016. Accessed July 28, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/black/light-skinned.
